Thomas Ashe

Thomas Ashe (12 January 1885-25 September 1917) was a leader of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising of 1916.

Biography
Thomas Ashe was born in Lipsole, County Kerry, Ireland on 12 January 1885, and he worked as a teacher before joining the Irish Volunteers. Ashe led a force of 70 Irish guerrillas during a guerrilla campaign against the British Army in County Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, and he was sentenced to penal servitude after the rising was crushed. Ashe was later released from prison following the 1917 amnesty, only to speak out in favor of Irish nationalism once free. Ashe returned to prison, and he died while on a hunger strike in September 1917.